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Direct linkFlorence, Kimberly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The college preparedness of first-year, first-semester, undergraduate students was researched and analyzed in this study. The research entailed a purposeful selection of 10 first-year, first-semester, undergraduate student participants that transitioned into a four-year public university, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), from a Nevada…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Freshmen, High School Graduates, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewedMoschetti, Roxanne Venus; Hudley, Cynthia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Social capital, the value of a relationship that provides support and assistance in a given social situation (Stanton-Salazar, 2001), is a useful theory for understanding the experiences of low-income adolescents who are the first in their families to attend college. According to social capital theory, networks of relationships can help students…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Low Income Groups
